New ADA Accessibility Guidelines Available

The United States Access Board and the Office of Management and Budget, have approved the new ADA Accessibility Guidelines.  The new document overhauls and updates the ADA Accessibility Guidelines and includes a number of revisions both large and small.  It marks the first full-scale update of the guidelines, which were originally published in 1991.  The published rule will also include updated guidelines for Federal facilities, which are covered not by the ADA but by an earlier law.  Guidelines address access in new construction and alterations and contain scoping provisions, which indicate what has to comply, and technical specifications, which spell out how compliance is to be achieved.

click here for the ADA Accessibility Guidelines